IPS Retention Specialist; North & East Herts

Overview

As an IPS Job Retention Specialist (ES), you will work as a member of the multi‑disciplinary Community Team, autonomously managing a caseload of service users to enable them to retain their employment using the Individual Placement Support (IPS) model. You will collaborate with HPFT community mental health teams and primary care, as well as attend team meetings and receive supervision from the IPS Employment Quadrant Lead.

• Provide specialist advice and ongoing support on employment rights, reasonable adjustments, and phased return to work plans.
• Support employment termination applications and provide workplace support to service users and employers to promote inclusion and reduce discrimination and stigma.
• Deliver the IPS approach for individuals who have been supported out of a job and wish to obtain new employment, offering training when a service user is supported into a new role.
• Work directly with relevant stakeholders—including service users, Community Services staff, consultant psychiatrists, partner agencies, and employers—to support the service users on your caseload to retain their employment.
• Be a fully integrated community team staff member, attending team meetings and participating in the Virtual IPS team to receive support from peers in other Community teams.

Each Community Services Hub provides a specialist care pathway to Service Users with Non pyschotic disorders and Personality disorder. They also provide specialist care pathways to those with psychotic disorders. Employment Support forms part of these pathways.

Applications are welcomed from all suitable candidates; however, sponsorship will not be offered for this role.